Barbara Anderson has just released a new book on CD that contains some 5000 pages of public court records from the nine lawsuits involving 16 victims that the WTS settled secretly in May of this year, plus documents from two other cases the Society settled in 2000 and 2006.
It’s called Secrets of Pedophilia in an American Religion: Jehovah’s Witnesses In Crisis.
The book, and more info from Barbara about it, is available here:
www.watchtowerdocuments.com
You can buy the CD, which contains the 5000 pages of court documents along with about a 100 page commentary on the material by Barbara, all in PDF format, I think.
What makes this especially fascinating was that a good deal of this material was supposed to have been sealed and not made public, but the court failed to do that and made it available when it was requested from the court records.
So stuff the Society thought would never see the light of day is open for viewing and research, including letters from District Overseers to the Service Department regarding a notorious pedophile that the Service Department knew was abusing kids as far back as 1964, yet they reappointed him as an elder in congregation after congregation. Turns out he was abusing kids all this time, for about 30-40 years!
The records present a damning picture of the WTS trying to protect itself at the expense of victims of abuse. Barbara also provides some insightful ideas on how this all developed and where the WTS made serious mistakes in how it dealt with pedophile elders and servants.
Enjoy!
S4
It’s called Secrets of Pedophilia in an American Religion: Jehovah’s Witnesses In Crisis.
The book, and more info from Barbara about it, is available here:
www.watchtowerdocuments.com
You can buy the CD, which contains the 5000 pages of court documents along with about a 100 page commentary on the material by Barbara, all in PDF format, I think.
What makes this especially fascinating was that a good deal of this material was supposed to have been sealed and not made public, but the court failed to do that and made it available when it was requested from the court records.
So stuff the Society thought would never see the light of day is open for viewing and research, including letters from District Overseers to the Service Department regarding a notorious pedophile that the Service Department knew was abusing kids as far back as 1964, yet they reappointed him as an elder in congregation after congregation. Turns out he was abusing kids all this time, for about 30-40 years!
The records present a damning picture of the WTS trying to protect itself at the expense of victims of abuse. Barbara also provides some insightful ideas on how this all developed and where the WTS made serious mistakes in how it dealt with pedophile elders and servants.
Enjoy!
S4